Jimmy Lee Smith
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Jimmy Lee Smith (January 30, 1931 – April 6, 2007),[1][2][3][4] also known as Youngblood,[2][3][5] was an American criminal who assisted Gregory Powell with the kidnapping of Los Angeles Police Department officers Ian Campbell and Karl Francis Hettinger on the night of March 9, 1963.[5][6] There, Smith and Powell took Campbell and Hettinger to an onion field near Bakersfield, California, where Campbell was fatally shot.[5] Infamously known as one of the "Onion Field" killers, Smith's story was depicted in Joseph Wambaugh's 1973 nonfiction book The Onion Field.[7] The book was adapted into a 1979 feature film of the same name in which Smith was portrayed by Franklyn Seales.[8]